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Yearly Archives: 2021
Click to view PDF Staas & Halsey LLP Summer 2021
By: Mehdi Sheikerz, Partner DOCX is a word processing file format based on open standards and is supported by word processing applications. According to the USPTO, as a part of their continuous efforts to modernize and streamline their patent application systems, applicants have had the ability to file patent application-related […]
September 22, 2021 | By S&H
Posted in: S&H IP Blog | U.S. District Courts
Posted in: S&H IP Blog | U.S. District Courts
A CLAIM RECITING AN ABSTRACT IDEA PERFOMED BY GENERIC COMPONENTS MAY NOT RECITE PATENTABLE SUBJECT MATTER
By: Sunil Chacko, Associate In Zyrcuits IP LLC v. Acuity Brands, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware invalidated US Patent. No. 6,667,307 under 35 USC §101 for claiming ineligible subject patent matter. Patent 6,667,307 Patent ‘307 is directed to method for sending data over a communication channel. […]
By: Gene M. Garner II, Partner In a June 1, 2021 opinion in Gilbert P. Hyatt v. Andrew Hirshfeld, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent Office, Case: 18-2390, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Federal Circuit”) held that […]
September 22, 2021 | By Gene M. Garner II
Posted in: S&H IP Blog | U.S. Supreme Court
Posted in: S&H IP Blog | U.S. Supreme Court
DOCTRINE OF ASSIGNOR ESTOPPEL LIMITED TO REPRESENTATIONS MADE IN ASSIGNING A PATENT
By: Gene M. Garner II, Partner In a June 29, 2021 opinion in Minerva Surgical, Inc., v. Hologic, Inc., et al., 594 U.S. __(2021), on Writs of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit), the United States Supreme Court (“the Court”) upheld the […]